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Lynching Photographs; Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond

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Koritha Mitchell
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 641–643.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-029
Published: 01 September 2010
...Koritha Mitchell © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Lynching Photographs . By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond . Ed. Anne P...
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Lynching in the West, 1850-1935; A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature

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Koritha Mitchell
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 838–840.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-048
Published: 01 December 2007
...Koritha Mitchell Duke University Press 2007 Lynching in the West, 1850-1935 . By Ken Gonzales-Day. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 299 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature . By Jacqueline Goldsby. Chicago...
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“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois

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Benjamin J. Murphy
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 195–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003554
Published: 01 June 2021
... scientific numbering to lynching and racial violence more broadly. This latter achievement resonates with scholarly efforts to access Black life from within a desolately tabulated archive of loss and erasure. Specifically, as triangulated with Wells and Twain, Du Bois’s graphics proffer a counterintuitive...
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The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane

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Susan Edmunds
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 141–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-141
Published: 01 March 2003
...Susan Edmunds Duke University Press 2003 Susan The Race Question and the ‘‘Question of the Edmunds Home Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer’s Cane...
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“We Don’t Wanna Be Radiated”: Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism

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Lisa Lynch
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 327–351.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587368
Published: 01 June 2012
...Lisa Lynch Lynch’s essay explores the divergence between the symbolic imaginary of nuclear power and the imaginative terrain of environmentalism through a look at documentary film about the civilian nuclear industry. Lynch first analyzes several films about US antireactor activism produced...
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Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype

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Lisa Lynch
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 395–397.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533362
Published: 01 June 2016
...Lisa Lynch Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 . By McAuley Louis Kirk . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell Univ. Press ; Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . 2013 . xv, 327 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; e-book, $89.99 . The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print...
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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

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Lisa Lynch
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2322595
Published: 01 September 2013
...Lisa Lynch Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics . By Holloway Karla F. C. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . 225 pp. Cloth , $79.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic...
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The Cakewalk of Capital in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

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John Mac Kilgore
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1540950
Published: 01 March 2012
...John Mac Kilgore Engaging in a long-standing debate about how to understand post-Reconstruction era “spectacle lynching,” Kilgore's essay revisits Charles Chesnutt's 1901 novel The Marrow of Tradition in light of current theories of racial violence read through the logics of corporate capitalism...
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Reconstructing Revenge: Race and Justice after the Civil War

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Gregory Laski
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 751–781.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917296
Published: 01 December 2019
...; and the Colored American Magazine ’s coverage of the lynching of Louis Wright. Reading these works alongside Pauline E. Hopkins’s Winona (1902), I show how her novel develops a philosophy of righteous revenge that reclaims the true meaning of justice in a democracy. Ultimately, this archive can help us not only...
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The Black Skyscraper

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Adrienne Brown
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 531–561.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959625
Published: 01 September 2013
... the view from the skyscraper’s apex to imagine both utopian and dystopian designs of modern sociality. While lynching and minstrelsy have previously been the primary vehicles for thinking about race, crowds, and visions during the early twentieth century, Thur man and DuBois insist on the significance...
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Protest and Affirmation: Composite Texts in the Crisis

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Anne Carroll
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 89–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-89
Published: 01 March 2004
... periodicals devoted occasional attention to the achievements of African Americans or protested lynchings and acts of racism and violence, but such coverage was the exception.8 While a mix of visual and written texts thus characterized many pro- gressive periodicals oriented to white readers, DuBois filled...
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Racism and Violence in Current US Literary and Cultural Criticism

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James Dawes
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 177–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959580
Published: 01 March 2013
..., and the US State. By Chandan Reddy. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2011. 303 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. Living with Lynching: African-American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930. By Koritha Mitchell. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 272 pp. $40.00. Mary Turner...
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Touching a Button

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Lindsay Reckson
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 31–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453648
Published: 01 March 2016
... : Henry N. Abrams . Gilmore Paul . 2009 . Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Goldsby Jacqueline . 2006 . A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press...
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Writing the Old Negro in a New Century: James Weldon Johnson and the Uses of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Adena Spingarn
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 29–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788705
Published: 01 March 2017
... , 3 – 16 . New York : Touchstone . First published 1925. Meer Sarah . 2005 . Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . Mitchell Koritha . 2011 . Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays...
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Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism; Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation

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Jane F. Thrailkill
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-027
Published: 01 September 2010
.../00029831-2010-028 Lynching Photographs. By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond. Ed. Anne P. Rice. New Bruns- wick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. xv...
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The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature; Captive Arizona, 1851–1900

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Lucy Maddox
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 639–641.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-028
Published: 01 September 2010
... are, as Smith puts it, “turning over new academic ground with a sharp stick” (xiv). Lucy Maddox, Emerita, Georgetown University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-028 Lynching Photographs. By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00...
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Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America; America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology

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Wendy Graham
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 644–646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-030
Published: 01 September 2010
... are, as Smith puts it, “turning over new academic ground with a sharp stick” (xiv). Lucy Maddox, Emerita, Georgetown University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-028 Lynching Photographs. By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00...
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Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900; The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War

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Eric Solomon
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 646–648.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-031
Published: 01 September 2010
.../00029831-2010-028 Lynching Photographs. By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond. Ed. Anne P. Rice. New Bruns- wick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. xv...
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Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America; Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction

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Aviva F. Taubenfeld
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 648–650.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-032
Published: 01 September 2010
.../00029831-2010-028 Lynching Photographs. By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond. Ed. Anne P. Rice. New Bruns- wick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. xv...
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The Poetry of War; Male Armor: The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture

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Celia M. Kingsbury
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 651–652.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-033
Published: 01 September 2010
... are, as Smith puts it, “turning over new academic ground with a sharp stick” (xiv). Lucy Maddox, Emerita, Georgetown University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-028 Lynching Photographs. By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00...
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